La Via Campesina mobilized European farmers to demonstrate in front of the European Parliament on Monday. Please read their press release here or an excerpt below: “Farmers mobilize in Brussels: “Reclaiming peasants’ rights over our own seeds” Published on Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:34 (Brussels, 20 January 2014) At the start of the year devoted to[…]

April 4, 2012 — The day that biotech giant Monsanto released its second quarter earnings, a new report (click here) by La Via Campesina, Friends of the Earth International and Combat Monsanto shows that around the world small-holder and organic farmers, local communities and social movements are increasingly resisting and rejecting Monsanto, and the agro-industrial[…]

U.S. Dairy Farmers Link with Intl. Farmers to Protest Global Dairy Crisis (09.18.09) – NFFC, as a member of the international farmers movement La Via Campesina, has released a statement highlighting the common struggles of dairy farmers around the globe who are all suffering from an unprecedented economic crisis as farm milk prices have collapsed globally.